This gnome panel applet monitors a Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com) account for new items and displays an alert when there are new items to be read. Bloglines Notifier is a Gnome panel applet that monitors a Bloglines account and displays an alert when there new items. When there are new items the applet displays a tooltip with the count of unread items. Also one can double click on the applet in order to launch a web browser and point it at the Bloglines account being monitored.